"Recovery system update required." for Find My Mac -- after already updated!

I have the same problem (MBP 15" 2011).

All updates are made yet "Find my Mac" asks me to update. Repairing disk permission does not solve the problem.

My problem is solved (Thank you my American friends who had the same problem as me: D)
For all those who have this problem and speaks French, I give here the solution:
1) Make a check disk: When you start your Mac press  + s
(To boot into "single user" opens a command window to full screen)
2) Wait until you've finished registering Mac stuff and end type: fsck-yf
Repeat the fsck-yf until it is marked OK somewhere.
Then type exit to restart the Mac
3) Go to Application => Utilities => Disk Utility (Select Machintosh HD) and click "Repair disk permissions"
4) Last step, download and install the update to the backup system: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464

And it works! (Sorry for my English but I am Belgian and I speak French)
Link to my Soluton in French : http://forum.mac4ever.com/probleme-localiser-mon-mac-impossible-de-l-active-t695 82.html

Hi Neovex,

thanks for your post, but while searching for the fsck -yf on the web I see this article:

http://www.motherboardpoint.com/re-fsck-y-vs-fsck-yf-t212705.html

It says that fsck -yf should be run with jounaling disable otherwise it could be dangerous.

Do you have disabled the journaling before running it?

Have a nice day.

Andrea

I followed several tutorials to start the fsck-yf and no one told me it was dangerous.
At home it worked. No problem
It should also work for you.
Good day.

How to access Recovery Partition in Lion?

The solution provided by SP Forsythe totally solved the problem for me.

I just wanted to add instructions on how to access the Recovery Partition. If you are running Lion, then you don't have a Recovery Disk since you downloaded the installation files from the App Store. Instead there is a Recovery Partition on your hard disk.

To access this partition, shutdown your Mac and restart it while holding down the Command key and the letter R. Keep holding them down until your Mac restarts in the Recovery Partition mode. Select Disk Utility and follow the instructions posted above.

Works, after repairing Drive and then manully downloading the update again.

Link to Download http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1464/en_US/RecoveryHDUpdate.dmg

🙂

Thanks, I will try in the morning.

I wish I could unsubscribe from this thread now though.... stupid Apple Discussions.

You can. Go to the top of the discussion page and click the link to the right that says "Stop Email Notifications" in the Actions box.

Repairing the disk and reinstalling the update as described by SP Forsythe worked for me. Unfortunately, "Find my Mac" says that there is no location available for my mac, but can find my iPad and iPod that are on the same network. One step forward, two steps back.

Hi Neovex,

your solution worked also for me.

Thanks very much.

Andrea

Jmaster's suggestion worked for me. Downloading the update manually did the trick. Thanks!

Indeed, correct answer...I guess running out of space too often is bad 🙂

Thanks for the help, SP Forsythe...excelent thinking 🙂

Hi ,

i have been trying to solve this problel all day , it seems impossible. When i'm trying to install an update :

"Lion recovery update can't be istalled on this disk. An error while occurred evaluating JavaScript for the package"

I have done all disk utility checks and no errors found.

Thank you for help

I would just turn off you computer.

Start it again and hold R.

reinstall Lion.

then try again.

Hi all.

I was also experiencing this issue and managed to resolve it with the information in this thread. I wrote a blog post which walks you through the steps for getting Find My Mac to work: http://www.macosliontips.com/uncategorized/find-my-mac-not-available-after-10-7- 2-software-update.html

Hope that helps